Bug#952669: reportbug output

[Lucas B. Cohen]

On 3/3/20 6:56 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 03/03/2020 18.05, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>> Attached is partial output of : reportbug --template -T none -s none -S
>> normal -b --list-cc none -q xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-390xx (with
>> repeated lines removed, and some irrelevant info sanitized).
> 
> You were running the current (418.xx) nvidia-driver:
> 
>> /proc/driver/nvidia/version:
>> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  418.74  Wed May  1 11:49:41 CDT 2019
>> GCC version:  gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6) 
> 
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 Mar  3 16:33 /etc/alternatives/nvidia
> -> /usr/lib/nvidia/current
> 
> therefore the collected information is mostly irrelevant for the 390xx
> driver.
Right. I had switched back to the current driver before running
reportbug. My bad.


> You don't seem to have the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver package installed
> either ...
Well, this is awkward. Indeed, after checking more closely it appears I
only had small bits and pieces of the complete legacy driver installed.
(Perhaps only a couple packages, including the dkms-support package,
which misled me into reassigning this bug here).


> Were you using the glvnd or nonglvnd variant of the 390xx driver?
> nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver-libs | nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver-libs-nonglvnd
Judging from my apt logs, neither one was present on my system! (This is
consistent with strace output I was seeing previously, showing some
nvidia libs not being found when launching my userspace program.)


> Since that card seems to be supported by all driver versions:
> is there any reason to use the 390xx legacy driver for this card?
Not that I can tell. Properly installed, both work well on my system.

Given the strange, quite broken state in which my system was, it's
probably not worth anyone's time investigating this any further. Thank
you for your answer, and sorry for the noise.


> BTW, the README.txt in the 390.xx driver lists the GeForce GTX 750 Ti as
> a supported card.
(D'oh. This is me failing to read the last three lines of the package
description.)